Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology ME CSE SCSA7012 Multicore Architecture Syllabus

[Arvind Kumar]

Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology ME CSE SCSA7012 Multicore Architecture Syllabus

SATHYABAMA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF COMPUTING

SCSA7012 MULTICORE ARCHITECTURE
L T P Credits Total Marks
3 0 0 3 100

UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION 9 Hrs.
Fundamentals of Super Scalar Processor Design - Introduction to Multicore Architecture - Chip Multiprocessing -
Homogeneous Vs. Heterogeneous Design – SMP - Multicore vs. Multithreading.

UNIT 2 MEMORY ORGANIZATION 9 Hrs.
Shared memory architectures – Synchronization – Memory organization – Cache Memory – Cache Coherency Protocols -
Design of Levels of Caches.

UNIT 3 PROGRAMMING MODEL 9 Hrs.
Multicore programming Model – Shared memory model - Message passing model -Transaction model – OpenMP and MPI
Programming.

UNIT 4 POWER PC DESIGN 9 Hrs.
PowerPC architecture – RISC design - Power PC ISA - Power PC Memory Management - Power 5 Multicore architecture
design - Power 6 Architecture.

UNIT 5 PROCESSING ELEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT 9 Hrs.
Cell Broadband engine architecture - PPE (Power Processor Element) - SPE (Synergistic processing element) - Cell
Software Development Kit - Programming for Multicore architecture.
Max. 45 Hrs.

TEXT / REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Hennessey & Pateterson, “Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach”, Harcourt Asia, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999
2. Joseph JaJa,”Introduction to Parallel Algorithms”, Addison-Wesley, 1992.
3. IBM Journals for Power 5, Power 6 and Cell Broadband Engine Architecture.
4. Kai Hwang, “Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability and Programmability” McGraw Hill, 1993.
5. Richard Y. Kain, “Advanced Computer Architecture: A System Design Approach”, PHI, 1999.
6. Rohit Chandra, Ramesh Menon, Leo Dagum, and David Kohr, “Parallel Programming in OpenMP”, Morgan
Kaufmann, 2000.

END SEMESTER EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER PATTERN
Max. Marks: 100 Exam Duration: 3 Hrs.
PART A: 5 Questions of 6 Marks each – No choice 30 Marks
PART B: 2 Questions from each unit of internal choice, each carrying 14 Marks 70 Marks